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Latest Movie Reviews: The Assistant


Thu 06 Feb 2020 | 03:57 PM
Yara Sameh

The Assistant is an American drama movie that was produced in 2019. It had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, afterward, Bleecker Street acquired distribution rights to the movie.

The plot revolves around a young female graduate who enters a film production company, she slowly understands the shady field she entered.

It scored 85% from Rotten Tomatoes, 5.9/10 from IMDb, and 76% from Metacritic.

One of the most trusted measurements of quality for Movies & TV, Rotten Tomatoes’s critical consensus reads, “Led by a powerhouse performance from Julia Garner, The Assistant offers a withering critique of workplace harassment and systemic oppression.”.

The movie comes at the time of the "Me Too" movement, which is a movement raised against sexual harassment and sexual assault. The phrase "Me Too" was initially used in this context on social media in 2006, on Myspace, by sexual harassment survivor and activist Tarana Burke.

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Info & Cast

Rating: R (for some language)

Genre: Drama, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Kitty Green

Written By: Kitty Green

Produced by: James Schamus, Scott Macaulay, and P Jennifer Dana

Release date: Jan 31, 2020

Runtime: 87 minutes

Studio: Bleecker Street

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Cast

Julia Garner as Jane

Matthew Macfadyen as Wilcock

Kristine Froseth as Sienna

Makenzie Leigh as Ruby

Noah Robbins as Male Assistant

Dagmara Domińczyk as Donna

Purva Bedi as Executive Assistant